GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
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| baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| congenial | pleasant |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |